Re: PKG_CHECK_MODULES on system without pkg-config installed?

[Jef Driesen]

On 05/03/11 23:16, Vincent Torri wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jef Driesen<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > I'm trying to use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro to check for an external
> > library:
> >
> > PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBUSB], [libusb-1.0], [have_libusb=yes],
> > [have_libusb=no])
> >
> > This works great, except when trying to compile on a system without
> > pkg-config installed. The configure script fails with a syntax error. I
> > tried to wrap the PKG_CHECK_MODULES check in an AC_ARG_ENABLE enable block,
> > in an attempt to enable to skip this check. But this makes no difference.
> >
> > Is there another way to make this work?
>
> before any  PKG_CHECK_MODULES, call PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG to check if
> pkg-config is available

I tried that, and it makes no difference.